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Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the plucking-the-low-hanging-fruit dept.

BarbaraHudson writes: Softpedia is reporting that Anonymous, along with social media users, have identified several thousand Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members. "Besides scanning for ISIS Twitter accounts themselves, the hacking group has also opened access to the [takedown operation] site to those interested. Anyone who comes across ISIS social media accounts can easily search the database and report any new terrorists and supporters. The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts." Anonymous crowdsourcing their operations... welcome to the brave new world, ISIS. An article at The Independent reminds everyone that this information has not been independently confirmed, and that Anonymous is certainly capable of misidentifying people. It's also worth exploring the question of why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.

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  1. Re:what good will this do ? by BitZtream · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are you seriously so naive to think that they get a lot of recruits from twitter?

    Sure they get some, but typically first world whiney brats on twitter aren't the type that can actually survive even being around where ISIS does actual recruiting.

    When you make silly comments like this it shows that you really have no idea what motivates these people to be terrorists.

    Silly first world issues don't have any effect on people living in places that would call Hell an improvement.

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  2. Re:Why they haven't taken them down by prefec2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you only fight them in a war like scenario then this is correct. However, we can only win when we stop to produce young people who become willingly the tools of IS. Therefore, we have to cut the communication links of IS. And we must help those young men in school, university, and society to find another way to get recognition in life.

    See also: http://www.theguardian.com/pro...

  3. Don't call it "ISIS" or ISIL" by Kargan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That legitimizes them. They should be referred to as "Daesh".

    http://www.ibtimes.com/isil-is...

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